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Editorial
. 2024 Apr 12;13(1):41.
doi: 10.1186/s13756-024-01391-8.

World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers

Claire Kilpatrick  1 , Ermira Tartari  1 , Miranda Deeves  1 , Didier Pittet  2 , Benedetta Allegranzi  3
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Editorial

World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers

Claire Kilpatrick et al. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. .

Abstract

The World Health Organization's (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day continues to "bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene action at the point of care in health care to contribute to a reduction in health care-associated infections and the achievement of safer, quality health care for all".

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Conflict of interest statement

Ermira Tartari is an Associate Editor of Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, Didier Pittet and Benedetta Allegranzi are Founding Editor and Editorial Board members of the journal, respectively.

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